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state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … gender, racial, and ethnic inequality in the present day …
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education and experience and commonly work in different industries and occupations, multiple factors can influence the gender …There are large international differences in the gender pay gap. In some developed countries in 2010-2012, women were … to education, experience, and occupational wage differentials. Systems of wage compression narrow the gender pay gap but …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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fallen to seventeenth. We find that the expansion of "family-friendly" policies, including parental leave and part-time work … other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US … women are more likely than women in other countries to have full time jobs and to work as managers or professionals. …
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We consider the gender pay gap in the United States. Both gender-specific factors, including gender differences in …, importantly influence the gender pay gap. Declining gender differentials in the U.S., and the more rapid closing of the gender pay … gap in the U.S. than elsewhere, appear to be primarily due to gender-specific factors. However, the relatively large …
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This chapter examines the impact of wage-setting institutions and government policies on wages and employment, focusing on the OECD countries. There is considerable evidence that centralized collective bargaining, minimum wages and antidiscrimination policies raise the relative wages of the low...
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We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution, surveying studies from a variety of countries. Immigration may affect the skill composition of a country's residents and also, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. As background, we provide...
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